In preparing this special issue of "Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying" - we choose to consider solidarity in a somewhat larger perspective than the other one usually adopted by a clear majority of social support studies. This perspective gives priority to microscopic, immediate, direct transactions between a focal individual - the one affected by the prospect of soon to come death and two classes of people: those included in the core of that person's personal network and the health care personnel treating and accompanying soon to die people, many of them already advanced into agony.
Contributors
Introduction: Death, Distress, and Solidarity Roger Tessier
Distress, Stress, and Solidarity in Palliative Care Johanne de Montigny
Death of the Nursed: Burnout of the Provider Serge Marquis
The Organization of Life Before Death in Two Québec Cultural Configurations
Luce Des Aulniers
Death and its Rituals in the Novels on AIDS Joseph J. Lévy and Alexis Nouss
Death, Grief, and Solidarity: The Polytechnique Case Joseph J. Lévy, Daniel
Sansfacon, Jean-Marc Samson, and Louise Champagne
Reconstructing Death in Postmodern Society Robert Kastenbaum
Thanatology Research from Québec: A Different Emphasis Brian L. Mishara
Contributors
Robert Kastenbaumwas Professor Emeritus, at Arizona State University.
